Well its Concorso time again. It's been a year since I showed up with a
half finished car with no trim and barely an interior. This year was
different. The car is pretty complete at this stage. Garth and Mark met up
with us for a cruz out to Black Horse. It was uneventful except I was
leaking quite abit of oil. I just replaced my valve covers last night and
either screwed up the gasket or knocked the dipstick tube loose.
Anyway the line into the event wasn't as bad this year. We had to idle in
traffic for a few miles. The food is better and the portable toilets are
the fanciest I have seen. There were at least 70 Panteras there. A good
turnout. Tom Jaarda was there as well and was kind enough to sign my dash
for me.
Another beautiful car is pictured here, the AMX. We forget other companies were competing for our dollars besides Ford. The car is a gorgeous piece of sculpture.
We did see some great cars and the weather was chilly but the sun came out
later in the day. PI handed out thier arwards and I was shocked to recieve
the "Best Interior" award and "Director's Choice" award". It was very nice
of Dave Alder to make the nice comments about my car, "if we had to drive
one of these cars home today, this would be the one." I thought that was
very flattering. As far as the interior award, I was shocked because it has
received less attention then other areas. However it is very different from
other Panteras with the suede, custom door panels, and carbon fiber
dash. I had a really great time.
